Ah, LA Times article completely backing my assertion that YES, if you are posting wildfires, you should be posting the address of reported fires, EVEN IF not confirmed specifically by an "official evacuation notice". Because that information is critical to help citizens (as well as firefighters, etc.) understand where fast moving wildfires are going.
Read the exec summary. When it states race and socioeconomic factors NEVER played a role, AND first responders only thought of lives to save
What I hear is, the words structural racism are too hard to say, type, or address, and that people "don't see color"
One of the biggest shifts I experienced was when I challenged the idea "I don't see color"
Structural racism. If you were in the San Gabriel Valley that night, you saw how our neighbors were facing hellfire. Believe your own eyes and stand up for each other.
I was alerting everyone I knew. I didn't need aerial observations to tell who was going to be in danger that night.
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Business | Angry Altadena residents ask officials to halt Edison's undergrounding work by Melody Petersen
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Altadena residents, many still rebuilding after the deadly Eaton wildfire, have demanded that Southern California Edison halt its plan to bury electric distribution lines because the work is imposing unexpected costs of tens of thousands of dollars on homeowners, threatening the town’s remaining oak and pine trees, and leaving telecom wires on poles above ground; in a jointly‑signed letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, more than 120 residents and the town council cited “manifest failures” in coordination, financial burden, and environmental damage, and the council voted unanimously to press the request, while Edison’s spokesperson said the utility is looking for funding assistance, will allow homes to keep existing overhead lines if needed, and is training crews to avoid tree roots, even as the company faces separate investigations into its role in the fire and accusations of neglecting maintenance on aging transmission lines.
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Masonic Lodge Chili Cook-Off | Free Fundraiser for Eaton Fire Victims on March 28 | The South Pasadenan
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"...Working side by side with National Weather Service officials, an emergency management staffer around 4:30 p.m. had called for a cellphone blast across the Interstate 210 corridor — a stretch of foothill communities that includes Sylmar, Altadena and Sierra Madre — to warn people that they needed to prepare for dangerous winds. Even if a fire didn’t spark, trucks could topple. Limbs would certainly come down. Power lines could endanger residents. And if a spark did catch, it could quickly mirror the inferno that was engulfing Pacific Palisades, or worse.
It’s not clear what difference a prefire preparedness alert sent to residents before the Eaton fire would have made. But it could have added another element of urgency as perilous fire weather was beginning to overwhelm the region. ..."
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